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TIL People with Cystic Fibrosis are extremely dangerous to eachother

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R7By8 TIL that Chilean artist Marco Evaristti made meatballs from his own fat, then fed them to 12 other people in a “Last Supper”.
9YLn6 TIL kola has similar finger prints like humans.
P18Vg TIL that during World War II, the Danish resistance movement smuggled the Jews out of Denmark before the Nazis could send them to the concentration camps, in part by going through telephone books and warning everyone with Jewish-sounding names to go into hiding.
ZlLY TIL Wellington R. Burt, 1831-1919, did not leave his $100,000,000 estate to his children. His will had a “spite clause” which specified to wait until all his children and 21 years after his last grandchild while he was still alive had died. The estate was settled in 2011.
ZpeGD TIL why Californians (especially in SoCal) refer to their freeways as "the (highway)" (eg. "the 5", "the 101", etc.)